Can see both on the Lions tour. Think Foakes is the better keeper and has more experience. Interesting to note that in one of the warm up games in Australia last time Bairstow was injured and Root was the keeper.

'Any format of international cricket that you perform in gives you a chance to be selected in other formats,' he said.

The selectors think so too.

I would have thought that Buttler would have wanted to play in the T20 Global League in South Africa and then the Big Bash rather than sit on the bench in Australia. It seems that he sees himself as a number 7.

Surely if he isn't keeping the only reason for picking him would be if he was the best man for the number five batting spot ? Bringing in a "specialist" batsman at seven and moving the others up makes about as much sense as it did in India. He wasn't a disaster with the bat there ; but it gained the team precisely nothing....